Section: US & Canada
Ukraine troops nearing MH-17 crash site; U.N. opens war-crime probe
Ukrainian government forces recaptured three towns from pro-Russia separatists and were pressing toward the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine where the separatists accused of downing the plane have obstructed international disaster investigators, officials said Monday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
White House says Russia ‘losing’ war in Ukraine
The White House said Monday that Russia is “losing” its war in eastern Ukraine and warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime faces more sanctions this week by the U.S. and its European allies. “On the battlefield itself, the Ukrainians are doing very well,” said Tony Blinken, White House deputy …...
France to Lead Air Algerie Black Box Analysis
The black boxes from an Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali last week, killing all 118 people aboard, arrived in Paris on Monday as France takes the lead in the investigation. France’s transport minister said reviewing the data from the jet could take “weeks.” Flags flew at half-mast in France on Monday as the country began...
Poland, Britain call for more sanctions on Russia
The foreign ministers of Poland and Britain have called for more economic sanctions on Russia, saying it is responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine this month. …read more Source: Miami...
Black box confirms explosion downed plane in Ukraine
Flight data recorders confirm that a Malaysia Airlines airliner with 298 people aboard was blown out of the sky while flying over a war-torn corner of Ukraine. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Poland, Britain want new sanctions on Moscow, say Russia responsible for downing of airliner
The foreign ministers of Poland and Britain have called for more economic sanctions on Russia, saying it is responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine this month. …read more Source: FOX...
Sole Israeli national on downed Malaysian airliner was son of evangelical Christian
Ithamar Avnon, the sole Israeli national aboard the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, pictured in Jerusalem in 2008. (Shai Penn Eisenman) AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A few hours before he departed Amsterdam for Australia on July 17, Ithamar Avnon was praying for peace with his parents at their home in the Netherlands. That evening, pro-Russian...
Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
Self-proclamed Donetsk People’s Republic policemen search a minivan near Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Monday, July 28, 2014. An international police team abandoned its attemp… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Russian Oligarch’s Balkan-Style Gambit in Ukraine
On July 25, the London Financial Times published a lengthy and fascinating report dealing with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Courtney Weaver, a Moscow staffer for the newspaper, described how Konstantin V. Malofeev, a Russian Orthodox Christian billionaire little known in the West, traveled to Sevastopol, on the southwest coast of the Crimean...
Pope Francis Begs For An End To War On 100th Anniversary Of WWI
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I with an impassioned plea for people to “not repeat the mistakes of the past,” urging them to embrace dialogue to overcome conflicts. Francis cited current warfare between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as in Iraq and in Ukraine....
